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Murray Talks Music Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 2016 Spring: Rare and previously unpublished work from an influential critic, cultural theorist, and champion of jazz
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2016 Spring: If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.
Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring: How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase
DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services Kimberley Kinder 2016 Spring: When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
John Vassos Industrial Design for Modern Life Danielle Shapiro 2016 Spring: The first biography of a renowned industrial designer and illustrator who shaped the look of modern technology
Civil Racism The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout Lynn Mie Itagaki 2016 Spring: Examines how the preservation of civility comes at the expense of racial reconciliation and justice
Claiming Place On the Agency of Hmong Women Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs and Ma Vang, Editors 2016 Spring: A field-defining book that illustrates how Hmong scholarship might progress
Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring: Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter
Our Gang A Racial History of The Little Rascals Julia Lee 2015 Fall: Behind the scenes of The Little Rascals and the America that made them
The Beginning and End of Rape Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America Sarah Deer 2015 Fall: How to address widespread violence against Native women—practically, theoretically, and legally—from the foremost advocate for understanding and change
Death beyond Disavowal The Impossible Politics of Difference Grace Kyungwon Hong 2015 Fall: Women of color feminism should have a voice in all discussions of contemporary neoliberalism
Barnstorming the Prairies How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest Jason Weems 2015 Fall: How flight led to a new view of the Midwest, making it the center of the nation in more ways than one
Peace Corps Fantasies How Development Shaped the Global Sixties Molly Geidel 2015 Fall: How the 1960s Peace Corps’ gendered modernization ideology shaped social movements across the Americas
The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall: How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity
Measuring Manhood Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 Melissa N. Stein 2015 Fall: A major new history of scientific racism in the United States
Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall: How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall: Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?
Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring: What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
Making Suburbia New Histories of Everyday America John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul and Katherine Solomonson, Editors 2015 Spring: Illustrates the astonishing complexity of American suburbia
A Peculiar Imbalance The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869 William D. Green 2015 Spring: The untold story of what it meant to be a black member of early Minnesota society

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